Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-15

| taken from them by force and fraud, by
| violence to pay the tardy wages Of dis
honor shall be restored to the men who
| cultivate and who ought to own it. In
other words, it shall be fixed tenure and
| free land-and fair rent and nothing more.
and am he'e tonight as citizen of Kan
sas for the purpose of bidding God-speed
| to the men that are here, pressing this new
| gospel of peace upon the attention Of the
| tories of Great Britain.
| After the address was concluded, the
following resolutions were read and
adopted amid much enthusiasm:
Whereas, The present English govern
ment in pursuance of its long established
policy Of hatred and injustice towards Ire
land and Irish people, has now in contem
plation the enactment of coercive measures
whose provisions are still more stringent
and brutal than any of their predecessors,
whose operation is calculated to stamp out
all constitutional liberty, suppress trial by
jury and abolish the freedom Of the press,
and,
Whereas, This impending danger to a
defenseless and long suffering people is a
source of deepest solicitude to large class
of our citizens be it therefore
Resolved, That we enter our unqualified
condemnation of the cruel and vindictiye
policy of Lord Salisbury as being a reviv-
al of those dark days of Irish persecution
and misrule which form an indelible blot
upon the page of English history; policy
which is at variance with the voice of
reason and justice, and In contempt of the
wishes of the great masses of the English
themselves; policy whose avowed pur-
pose is to further break down and humili
ate before the world a proud, spirited peo-
pie, by representing them as lawless and
turbulent, unfit to be trusted with the
management OF their own affairs.
Resolved, That Irishmen, emancipated
from the crushing tyranny Of their envi-
rOnment, have ever risen to honorable
place among freemen everywhere. Out Of
the baleful shadow Of the English crown
they have made friends among the nations
of the earth who will rise up and do battle
for them. Here in America we hold in
grateful memory the gallant Irishmen,
who, on every field of warlike strife,
throughout our own perilous history, from
Lexington to AppomatoX, have, with their
imperishable deeds of gallantry and valor,
illustrated their loyalty and devotion to the
land of their adoption.
Resolved, That we warn the present
Tory government of England that We will
not view with uncOncern the further en-
slavement and humiliation Of race thus
endeared to us by every honorable consid
Grafton. We warn that government to de
sist from its barbarOus methods before it
has alienated the sympathy and respect of
the civilized world and surrender to Ire
land that greatest boon of freedom-the
rights of self government.
Resolved, That we heartily sympathise |
with the Irish people in their plan of cam
paign against the Oppressors, and urge
them to be steadfast to the teachings of
those noble patriots, Hon. W. E. Glad !
stone and Charles Stewart Parnell and
their associates, to whom we send our
warmest greetings.
Resolved, That a cablegram expressive
of the sense of this meeting be transmitted
to Mr.. Parnell at the earliest practicable